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Friday, July 20, 2012

balliceaux

You have probably heard the saying, “beer before liquor,
never been sicker”. Well, in my case, “beer mixed with liquor, never get to
sleep because of a guilt induced panic attack”. It doesn’t have quite the same ring
to it, but it is completely what happened to me on Monday.

You see, the Richmond Beer Lovers were hosting an event
featuring a cask of the Hardywood Park Virginia Strawberry Witbeir at Balliceaux. I did not
RSVP to this event, but I did show up.

In addition to the beer, they were serving beer cocktails
mixed by none other than Richmond mixologist and recent NYC transplant, Bobby
Kruger. I had three, one with peaches, one with watermelon and one served in a
martini glass that was lit on fire. You know, your typically Monday night,
night cap.

Thankfully, Evan drove.

We took home their bombolini
pasta with sausage craft dinner entrée and after completely scarfing that
down, I passed out.

In the middle of the night I was wide awake. I spent about
45 minutes pinning and then started scrolling through my twitter feed. I came
across this tweet from one of the organizers of the event.

I immediately went in to panic mode. Where we supposed to
buy tickets for the event that we crashed? Was there some charity benefiting
from this event that I totally stiffed without even knowing it? How would I
ever show my face at another Richmond beer event again?

Then somehow I did pass back out fall back asleep,
after freaking myself out until 3am.

When I woke up the next morning I realized that 1) I had a serious
headache and 2) the tweet was actually asking if we got a parking ticket. I had
been bragging all night about how I don’t pay attention to parking signs in the
fan and never get a ticket.

In other words, I was up all night feeling guilty about owing
the city money for parking illegally. Let this be a lesson.